procrustean
Example Sentences
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If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021
You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.
From Time • Jul. 22, 2010
That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exceptions to this procrustean rule are rare enough to be newsworthy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Iron- bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.
From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis
